Ribbon Music is pleased to announce the return of Baltimore’s Lower Dens with their third album, 'Escape from Evil'.

Lower Dens’ 2010 debut, 'Twin-Hand Movement', was a stunning evolution of guitar brilliance and murky emotiveness, while its 2012 follow-up, 'Nootropics' was a stark, textured paean to experimental bands of the krautrock era. 'Escape from Evil' marks a bold, monumental step forward for the band and the welcome manifestation of Jana Hunter as a singer we’ve never quite seen until now.

On 6 August 2012 The Big Eyes Family Players & Friends are to release ‘Folk Songs II’ a follow-up (of sorts) to the ‘Folk Songs’ album released with James Yorkston on Domino in 2009. It is a continuation of the previous collection (a selection of traditional songs from theUKandEire), but on this record the boat has been pushed out a little more. The songs and stories are more sprawling, and arrangements show further disregard for any folk tradition. James Green (Big Eyes captain) admits openly to not knowing much about folk music, or particularly having much time for folk authenticity....